Harley Street in posh London is known as the residence of doctors, and this excellent Regency series follows the careers of some. At this time, doctors had to be male. If you are used to thinking of discrimination as historically against women, think again while reading A TASTE OF GOLD.   Dr. Felix Leafley, a busy dentist, started out in Vienna, Austria. I was delighted to find a scene involving the dancing white stallions. Faivish Blattner was his name then, a respectable Jewish man learning a trade. His mentor is the father of Maisie Morgenschein. Faivish is learning to make gold fillings, but he breaks the rules of the dental college by using expensive porcelain on a man who isn’t titled. There was already a slight bias against a Jewish student. Faivish is permitted to graduate but not to use his first-class degree in Vienna. Maisie’s father arranges for the young man to pursue his training as a dentist in Calcutta, India, part of the British Empire. This breaks the two young lovers apart.     Sadly, a rising tide of antisemitism makes life too hard to trade in Austria. Maisie is from a marked family, as men like Baron von List, a friend of the Kaiser, envy anyone successful who is not part of their circle. She escapes to England in the role of guardian to an orphaned young marquess, John Spencer. After five years in the countryside, they visit London. Maisie has not given up hope of finding Faivish again, but he wouldn’t recognise her new name of Lady Eleanor Spencer.   A TASTE OF GOLD is a fascinating and detailed Regency romance, part of the Miracles on Harley Street series. The bullying tactics and general intimidation faced by the characters feel alarming. At this time, the forerunners of anarchists were spreading on the Continent, which was to result in the Great War. The upper crust in England intermarried with German nobility, taking on their attitudes, for good and bad. The author, Sara Adrien’s extensive historical research during the tale and in notes, where she explains that dentistry is a little more developed, but not much else is out of sequence. I believe that Lady Eleanor’s good name would have been lost from sitting in a covered carriage with a man who was not her relative, sans chaperone. That wasn’t mentioned.   I would be interested to read about some of the other characters in this series, many of whom are Jewish and keeping to traditions in London. The Crown gave them custom, and their practices healed many. They found wonderful romances.